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Jerad Walker

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Podcast Editor: North Carolina Public Radio (WUNC). Contributor: NPR. Alum: OPB, WAMU. Cheerwine enthusiast. Go Dawgs!

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · Jun 23

This moth looks like Ric Flair

The Nature Boy posing before a match while wearing a luxurious pink robe and his heavyweight title belt. His gorgeous blond hair flows down his neck.

A rosy maple moth. The species is known for its wooly body and pink and yellow coloration, which varies from cream or white to bright pink or yellow. Males have bushier antennae than females, which allow them to sense female pheromones for mating.

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Billy, this is the Seattle Mariners. They just won the ALDS. They’re one of the most undervalued teams in baseball. Their defect is that they don’t sleep.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 3h

Neutrals watching October baseball

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 3h

When do they force these teams to go for 2 point conversations?

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 4h

Evergreen post apparently

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 6d

Extra innings, extra beers

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 19h

I dunno. This is probably exactly what we should expect from Wall Street Journal music criticism.

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 19h

Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

(Go Aggies)

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NC A&T’s logo looks like it’s about to get canceled at a Coldplay concert. I can’t unsee it.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

CONCACAF After Dark

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

We have an ongoing CONCACAF situation in Nicaragua.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

UNC-Chapel Hill is merging its schools of data science and information science to form ‘School of AI’

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 2d

This is on Friday, October 17. I hope he's still here.

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · Dec 10

I, for one, am excited to welcome future co-worker Bill Belichick at the next UNC Employee Appreciation Day.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 2d

Well that escalated quickly.

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 3d

Can y’all imagine the gold being left on the cutting room floor here?

Report: UNC scraps plans for Hulu documentary

UNC has scrapped plans for a documentary series with Hulu, according to a report from Inside Carolina, after the team's 2-3 start on the season.

www.espn.com

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 3d

I can smell this image.

Jimmy Lonetti @djgloverepair.bsky.social · 3d

Wilson "The A2000"
I've worked on hundreds of these 1970's era, made in the USA A2000s. Guys just never get rid of them.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 3d

Well that’s one incredibly bizarre way to look at it.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh